Dear Quentin,
I bought my home in California for $ 520,000 in 2017. It’s now worth $ 980,000. In 2019, I met my now-wife who moved in at the beginning of 2020. We married six months later in July 2020. Things were going great and we decided to have one bank account. I also added my wife to my home on the deed as 50/50 in January 2021.
I…